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A. J. HARRIS.

.ORNAMENTAL CHAIN.

No. 253,203. Patented Feb. 7,1882.

WITNESSES. INVENTOR- NiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. HARRIS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ORNAMENTAL CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,203, dated. February '7, 1882.

Application filed January 31, 1881. Renewed January 4, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW J. HARRIS, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Ornamental (Jhains; and Ideclare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing.

, My invention relates to ornamental chains and necklaces, and is a new article of manufacture, consisting essentially of wooden blocks turned or cut into fanciful designs and finished in enamel, the blocks being provided at each end with a loop or eye united bylinks of gold or other suitable metal or metals.

The annexed drawing representsa plan view of my invention.

The principal. links of my improved chain are wooden blocks A A, of any suitable size and shape, at the ends of which are inserted metallic loops or eyes a a. The links are then dipped in enamel and baked in the manner familiar to all enamelers. These links are capable of various ornamentation in color or designs painted thereon in dead colors; or the entire link A may be finished in imitation of shell or horn in the manner described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 177,332, dated May 16, 1876, heretofore granted to me. The link so finished is shown at B. These links are then connected by one or more metallic links, 0, preferably of gold or gold-plate, the whole forming a beautiful, durable, and inexpensive chain or ornament.

cheapjewelry have been made whollyorpartly of wood, and that ornamental chains have been made of similar material in links connected by dividing them alternately on opposite sides and springing theintermediatelinks in the said divided ones, which are then united by glue or cement. This, however, I do not claim.

The advantages of my improved chain as an article of wear are its inexpensiveness, durability, extreme lightness, and capacity for ornamentation.

I therefore claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Iatent As a new and improved article of manufacture, the ornamental chain herein described, consisting of the major links B, made of wood and finished in enamel, and having eyes a a, connected by one or more minor links, 0, of

gold or other suitable metal.

ANDREW J. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

WM. H. BAKER, IRVING OHAMPLIN. 

